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Jerusalem says Israeli, UAE foreign ministers have spoken, agreed to meet soon
Israel’s Foreign Ministry formally confirms the initiation of phone service with the UAE and that Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi has spoken with his Emirati counterpart, Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan.
The two ministers “jointly decided to establish a direct channel of communications between them, ahead of the signing of the normalization agreement between both countries, and agreed to meet soon,” the statement says.
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